Existential constructions in Romance languages: requirements and effects of the locative clitic’s insertion. Data from Italian, Catalan, French and Spanish
Authors
María Eugenia Mangialavori Rasia
Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Entre Rios 758, Rosario (CP 2000), Santa Fe
The present paper focuses on Italian existential structures and onthe incidence of the clitic ci, allegedly locative, in the interpretationof the whole clause predicate, aiming to find out a link between theclitic's presence and the notorious changes in the lexical and syntacticconfiguration of the base verb. The comparisons made with Catalan,French and Spanish are intended to support such a hypothesis,given that these languages take haber as base verb for existentialstructures, whose possessive meaning has been confirmed in the firsttwo languages, a value that seems to be subdued in the presence ofthe element required (hi o y, respectively) in favour of the existentialinterpretation of constructions such as haver-hi o il y ha.
Mangialavori Rasia, M. E. (2008). Existential constructions in Romance languages: requirements and effects of the locative clitic’s insertion. Data from Italian, Catalan, French and Spanish. Boletín De Filología, 43(2), Pág. 99–116. Retrieved from https://boletinfilologia.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/18058
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